CLEAR held professional development workshop each summer for 22 years. Hundreds of language educators from across the nation and around the world attended CLEAR workshops over the years. Following is a list of the topics offered in CLEAR’s last four grant cycles.
Sixth Grant Cycle
- 2018 Increasing proficiency through World Language Core Practices (Section 1)
- 2018 Differentiated instruction in the language classroom
- 2018 Real-life genres for teaching reading and writing: From nutrition labels to restaurant reviews
- 2018 Proficiency-oriented games: How to make games useful and why
- 2018 Increasing proficiency through World Language Core Practices (Section 2)
- 2018 Maximizing target language use in classroom instruction
- 2017 Assessment in a proficiency-based language classroom
- 2017 Increasing proficiency through World Language Core Practices
- 2017 Reaching 21st century learners through unit design
- 2017 Teaching language with technology: Basic tools and techniques
- 2017 Reaching 21st century learners through unit design (section 2)
- 2016 Speaking Activities for Oral Proficiency Development
- 2016 Differentiated instruction in the language classroom (one day)
- 2016 Keeping student and teacher talk in the target language (one day)
- 2016 Teaching language with technology: Basic tools and techniques
- 2016 Writing in the foreign language classroom
- 2015 Reading and Listening in the Language Classroom: Focus on the Interpretive Mode
- 2015 Rich Internet Applications for Language Learning: Introductory Techniques
- 2015 The Basics of Assessment: Applying Proficiency-Based Approaches to the Classroom
- 2015 Using Short Stories and Young Adult Literature in Literature Circles to Facilitate ESL/EFL Reading
Fifth Grant Cycle
- 2014 The Basics of Creating Assessments: From Principles to Practice
- 2014 Rich Internet Applications for Language Learning: Introductory Techniques
- 2014 Speaking Activities for Oral Proficiency Development
- 2014 Using Authentic Materials in all Levels of Foreign Language Classes
- 2013 Writing in the Foreign Language Classroom
- 2013 Revisiting the Learning and Teaching of Vocabulary
- 2013 Rich Internet Applications for Language Learning: Introductory Techniques
- 2013 Assessing Speaking: For Placement Testing, Classroom-based Assessment, and Midterm and End-of-term Proficiency Exams
- 2012 Rich Internet Applications for Language Learning: Introductory Techniques (Section 1)
- 2012 Teaching Language in a Blended Environment: Tools and Best Practices (Section 1)
- 2012 Integrating Communicative Speaking Activities into Your Other Lessons
- 2012 Rich Internet Applications for Language Learning: Introductory Techniques (Section 2)
- 2012 Teaching Language in a Blended Environment: Tools and Best Practices (Section 2)
- 2011 Rich Internet Applications for Language Learning: Introductory Techniques
- 2011 Adding Variety to Reading and Vocabulary Lessons
- 2011 Project-Based Learning in the Language Classroom
- 2011 Using Video to Promote Language Development in the Classroom
Fourth Grant Cycle
- 2010 Using Video to Promote Language Development in the Classroom
- 2010 Blending Language Classes 101
- 2010 The Second “C”: Culture Teaching in the Language Classroom
- 2010 Rich Internet Applications for Language Learning: Introductory Techniques
- 2010 Rich Internet Applications for Language Assessment
- 2009 Rich Internet Applications for Language Learning: Advanced Techniques
- 2009 The Second “C”: Culture Teaching in the Language Classroom
- 2009 Teaching Writing in the Foreign Language Classroom
- 2009 Revisiting, Reinventing, and Restarting a Language Program: A Step by Step Approach
- 2009 An Online Language Portfolio Approach to the Development of Speaking and Listening Proficiency
- 2009 Rich Internet Applications for Language Learning: Introductory Techniques
- 2008 Tech Up Your Classroom: Enhancing Your Foreign Language Classroom with Technology
- 2008 Making the Most of Video in the Foreign Language Classroom
- 2008 Next-Generation Tools for Language Teaching: Rich Internet Applications for the Classroom
- 2008 Language Program Development
- 2008 Incorporating Communicative Speaking Activities into the Teaching of Reading, Writing, Grammar, and Vocabulary
- 2008 Designing Online Language Teaching Materials with an Accompanying Online Assessment Portfolio
- 2007 Keeping teacher and student talk in the target language
- 2007 Conducting action research in the FL classroom
- 2007 Focus on form in the L2 classroom
- 2007 Language Teaching and Technology
- 2007 Integrating Technology and Assessment for Language Teaching and Learning
- 2007 Making the most of video in the FL classroom
Third Grant Cycle
- 2006 Developing Online Language Materials
- 2006 Toward Friendly Assessment in the Foreign Language Classroom
- 2006 Language Program Development for Less Commonly Taught Languages
- 2005 Digital Video Projects
- 2005 Vocabulary – The Key to Language Fluency
- 2005 Teaching Writing in the Foreign Language Classroom
- 2005 You Can Take the Language Out of the Culture, but You Can’t Take the Culture Out of the Language
- 2005 Basic Web Immersion
- 2005 Choosing and Using Authentic Materials
- 2005 Creating Communicative Speaking Activities
- 2004 Teaching Speaking and Listening in the Foreign Language Classroom
- 2004 Teaching Reading in the Foreign Language Classroom
- 2004 Improving the Teaching of Foreign Languages with Learning Scenarios
- 2004 Basic Web Pages
- 2004 Putting Flash Into Your Course
- 2004 Materials Development Marathon: Creating Online Communicative
- 2004 Activities from Start to Finish
- 2004 Digital Video Projects
- 2004 Creating Communicative Grammar Activities
- 2003 Teaching Speaking and Listening in the Foreign Language Classroom
- 2003 Teaching Reading in the Foreign Language Classroom
- 2003 Teaching Writing in the Foreign Language Classroom
- 2003 Putting Flash into Your Course
- 2003 Developing a Learning Scenario to Bring Out the Best in Your Foreign Language Class
- 2003 Materials Development Marathon: Creating Online Communicative Activities from Start to Finish
